Earl Nightingale

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Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Creativity
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We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Inspirational
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No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.
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Collection: Men
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Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Dream
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Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Rewards
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Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Opportunity
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The key that unlocks energy is desire.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Keys
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Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Morning
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We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Success
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You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Teamwork
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Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Might
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Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about
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Collection: Wise
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That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Interesting
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Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: People
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To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Successful
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Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Goal
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The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Self Esteem
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Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Thinking
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Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Shooting
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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Success
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What happens inside always appears outside.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Happens
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Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Attitude
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Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Dream
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Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Grateful
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I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Beautiful
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Never compete, create.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Competition
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Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Believe
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Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Numbers
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Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Thinking
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Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Years
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People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Attitude
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You become what you continually think about.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Thinking
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If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Common Sense
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Enjoy Life
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Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Attitude
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If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Thank You
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Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Wise
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To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Inspirational
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Goals reflect your choice of destination.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Goal
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Mistake
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Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Skills
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A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Land
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Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Ideas
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One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Moving
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You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Attitude
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If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Opposites
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The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Ideas
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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Inspirational
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A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.
- Earl Nightingale
Collection: Jobs